Betrayal Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

“It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over…

— Preeti Shenoy

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

— Iris Murdoch

“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.

— Richard E. Grant

Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike…

— Robi Ludwig

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe…

— Henry Rollins

Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided…

— Sarah Dessen

Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will.…

— Pope Francis

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's…

— Jeffrey Kluger